My theory is to only start making left turns when you are lost. The worst that can happen is that you will end up in the same place that convinced you that you were lost. At this point, you begin to make only right turns.
(…a real man does not ask for directions…)
You know there’s something Mid-western & East Coast road builders do that I’ve never really understood.
You get on a road labeled “north.” Then you spend 20 minutes headed east. Then 20 minutes headed south. Then 20 minutes headed east again. Then, finally start actually going north.
Apparently, “north” just means where you’ll eventually end up, if you stay on the road long enough.
Here on the west coast, it seems a road labeled “north” will, excepting the occasional detour, actually head north.
Well, my husband complains that he *hates * left turns, so when he’s driving, I suggest ways to get where we’re going by making only right turns. It usually involves going way out of our way, but we’d get there in the end. Then he decides that left turns aren’t so bad after all. 
I first got my driver’s licence when I was at uni. For the first few months I was still not very confident about driving. So for getting to and from uni I had two separate routes, neither of which required making a right hand turn.
When is making a right turn less complicated or dangerous than a left?
A right hand turn requires crossing in front of approaching traffic. A left hand turn doesn’t.
Apparently this is for the Nissan ‘Pathfinder’, according to the Carhenge link. Are they suggesting it can actually find paths now?
You mean like I-80 East/West, which is also marked 580 West/East, and heads north-south?
Or 101-N out of Los Angeles, which goes about 100 miles west, at times even a little SSW, before heading North.
Or westbound Highway 30 from Portland, which for a while goes north and northeast for a ways on its way out to the sea.
(…or maybe I’m just being whooshed.)
You could make as many left turns as you wanted in the U.S., but you still won’t see any buffaloes.
You may see bison, however.
From Merriam-Webster:
buffalo
1 : any of several wild bovids: as a : WATER BUFFALO b : CAPE BUFFALO c (1) : any of a genus (Bison) of bovids; especially : a large shaggy-maned No. American bovid (B. bison) that has short horns and heavy forequarters with a large muscular hump and that was formerly abundant on the central and western plains — compare WISENT (2) : the flesh of the buffalo used as food
2 : any of several suckers (genus Ictiobus) found mostly in the Mississippi valley — called also buffalofish
Yep. We like to confuse the tourists like that. Chicago has a main highway running past it that you take to get pretty much anywhere else. I-94 West will get you north to Wisconsin, and 1-94 East will take you south…and eventually eastish to Indiana.
But it’s nowhere near as bad as 465 around Indianapolis - where coming from the south, West and North both take you north, but they’re two different roads. (One goes around the city, one doesn’t.) Would two names really have stretched the numbering imagination so badly?
I don’t know why our highways are so curvy. It’s not like we have great expanses of hills to work around…
Now that’s being confusing. Or obtuse. Where I come from, that’s true; but it’s not true where I live. (And when I started driving where I now live, I found left turns quite hard to make, until I forced my brain to approve of getting over to the far side of the road that I was turning into).
And yes, I know where Cunctator is driving – I was born in that town.
They should stop letting Derek Zoolander drive.